Comments on: The Human Future Remains Unchosen: An Exegesis of Deus Ex: Human Revolution http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: David http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/#comment-5843 David Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:10:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4684#comment-5843 @ColinC I almost agree with you. Definitely the right option is to let humanity make it's own choices but I see no reason why the truth should not be heard. Personally I see no reason to stop the augmentation of humans so I'd release the truth *then* advocate not to halt progress. Maybe it'd work. Thing is, these are not the choices you're offered. If you don't broadcast your version of the truth Taggart or Sarif or Darrow will, which is why you're given the choice to kill them. I found it annoying that I wanted the future of one ending and the methods of another, but sometimes in life you can't choose the perfect option. @ColinC

I almost agree with you. Definitely the right option is to let humanity make it’s own choices but I see no reason why the truth should not be heard. Personally I see no reason to stop the augmentation of humans so I’d release the truth *then* advocate not to halt progress. Maybe it’d work.

Thing is, these are not the choices you’re offered. If you don’t broadcast your version of the truth Taggart or Sarif or Darrow will, which is why you’re given the choice to kill them. I found it annoying that I wanted the future of one ending and the methods of another, but sometimes in life you can’t choose the perfect option.

]]> By: ColinC http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/#comment-5842 ColinC Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:57:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4684#comment-5842 I just finished the game last night, and honestly, none of the options comes close to the appropriate response as to what I believe Jensen should have learned. The proper answer, of all the proper answers, would have been to end the signal and then walk away. The reasons why don't matter, Hugh Darrow proved himself nothing more than a terrorist like any other elite planner out there. The right answer is closest to the option of killing everyone in the facility, but without the killing. Let people find their own answer, their own freedom, and it doesn't take the killing of anyone. I just finished the game last night, and honestly, none of the options comes close to the appropriate response as to what I believe Jensen should have learned. The proper answer, of all the proper answers, would have been to end the signal and then walk away. The reasons why don’t matter, Hugh Darrow proved himself nothing more than a terrorist like any other elite planner out there. The right answer is closest to the option of killing everyone in the facility, but without the killing. Let people find their own answer, their own freedom, and it doesn’t take the killing of anyone.

]]> By: Robert Hagedorn http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/#comment-5841 Robert Hagedorn Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:55:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4684#comment-5841 Is Saint Augustine's exegesis of the 2nd and 3rd chapters of Genesis correct? Do a search: First Scandal. Is Saint Augustine’s exegesis of the 2nd and 3rd chapters of Genesis correct? Do a search: First Scandal.

]]> By: Mothammad http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/#comment-5840 Mothammad Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:34:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4684#comment-5840 Yeah, tempted but... will read after finishing the game. Yeah, tempted but… will read after finishing the game.

]]> By: kirk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/#comment-5839 kirk Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:35:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4684#comment-5839 Wm Gibson nailed it when he saw the future arriving through a game console. Wm Gibson nailed it when he saw the future arriving through a game console.

]]> By: Gorbin Wafflemunch http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2011/09/01/the-human-future-remains-unchosen-an-exegesis-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/#comment-5838 Gorbin Wafflemunch Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:06:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=4684#comment-5838 Damnit!! I want to read the rest of this article but I'm still in the middle of crashing my way through the game...must...not...peek... Damnit!!

I want to read the rest of this article but I’m still in the middle of crashing my way through the game…must…not…peek…

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